Walter Bernard has been the designer and art director of many of the best-known magazines and newspapers in the United States, including Time, Fortune, and The Atlantic. In 1983, Bernard and his teacher, mentor, and friend Milton Glaser formed the design firm WBMG. Together, they have designed over 100 magazines and newspapers in the United States, Europe and Asia.

Bernard has won numerous awards, including gold and silver medals, from the Art Directors Club, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Society of Publication Designers, and the Society for Newspaper Design. In 2013, he received the Henry R. Luce Lifetime Achievement award for his work at Time Inc. He has taught at SVA and Cooper Union in New York City, and for the last 13 years at The Stanford Professional Publishing Course. He also lectures (on magazine and newspaper design) at seminars, schools and design associations in the United States and Europe.

Bernard and Glaser are co-authors of Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making Magazines (2019) where they recount their storied careers and offer insiders’ perspective on some of the most iconic design work of the twentieth century. The authors look back on and analyze some of their most important and compelling projects, from the creation of New York magazine to redesigns of such publications as Time, Fortune, Paris Match, and The Nation, explaining how their designs complemented a story and shaped the visual identity of a magazine.